After a leisurely start to the morning, which included breakfast at the hotel (a luxury), we took the train to the Rhine Falls – near Schaffhausen in Northern Switzerland.

The Rhine Falls are the largest waterfall in Switzerland and Europe. The are 150 metres wide and 23 metres high.

We took our tripods, and ND10 filter with the plan being to play around and see what we could get with our water shots. After all this was playtime and if we got no good photos at least we had seen the falls and had a play around with filters and settings. Furthermore we hadn’t carried our tripods to the other side of the world just to take up space in our suitcase.

We tried short exposures, long exposures, ND10 filter shots (I managed to purchase one in Lucerne), landscape and portrait shots. Lucky for Kirsteen her lens was the same size as mine as she thought she had packed the ND10 which turned out to be in the wrong case! We also held the filter over Suzanne’s camera so she could try as well.

As it had started to rain and was no longer pleasant we headed into Schaffhausen, a little town close to the Rhine Falls. We had a late lunch, and wandered around the town looking at all the beautiful buildings. Alot of buildings here were painted.

It was still raining and not so pleasant out. We knew we had an early start tomorrow so we caught the train back to Zurich late afternoon to make sure we got back before sunset.

We went to the bar for pre-dinner drinks (not gin) and spent time together looking at our photos, backing up to disk, discussing the day, chatting about the last six days and the days to come. This was followed by another lovely dinner at the hotel and an early night. We had to pack and make sure we were ready for the early start in the morning.